Example sentences of "in the [adj] [noun pl] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the SNP recorded swings in several seats it failed to breakthrough in the Labour seats it would need to win in any significant nationalist revival . |
| 2 | At latitudes greater than about 40° the banding is less clear , and in the polar regions it is replaced by smaller-scale cellular features . |
| 3 | Funerals are very valuable politically , and then you usually get a kind of a shake down , you get some kind of group — in the Communist countries it 's the polit bureau . |
| 4 | The trauma is still exerting an influence , but in the negative reactions it pushes against the trauma being recreated . |
| 5 | In the early stages it was finding them a deal , or moving them to the next level up . ’ |
| 6 | In the early stages it is very difficult to fill up time . |
| 7 | In the early stages it became apparent that the conference would go further than Kerekou had anticipated in discussion of future political reforms . |
| 8 | In the early days it was seen as bringing a whirlwind of well-paid high-technology jobs to an area of record unemployment . |
| 9 | ‘ In the early days it was really difficult to find records . |
| 10 | In the early days it had looked as if the directors would be the key men in Hollywood and from all over America men anxious to use the format to say something had been attracted to the movies . |
| 11 | In the early days it was not always easily secured . |
| 12 | In the early days it was like cinema in the home , watched with rapt attention . |
| 13 | In the early days it was water , in the form of the " endless ocean to the west " , which was the first major obstacle for continental European explorers . |
| 14 | Even in the early weeks it may increase the risk of a miscarriage . |
| 15 | Biographical time , the most complex of the three , the most various in the chronotopal forms it takes , and the most influential on later developments of the novel , places character at its centre , organizing space and time around it , variously tracing time as a spiritual or intellectual journey through a symbolic landscape , unfolding character through a series of acts and deeds , or tracing character through the different components of domestic and public life — family life , conduct in war , memorable sayings . |
| 16 | In the Western Isles it was estimated at about 16% in 1976 , or more than double the already high rate for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 17 | In the Baltic republics it has pushed determined but otherwise peaceable people to defend themselves as best they can . |
| 18 | In the intervening years it is estimated that 111 died while trying to escape and a further 77 lost their lives on the Berlin Wall itself , with most of these deaths occurring in the 1960s . |
| 19 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 20 | The village itself is well over 1000 years old ; in the middle ages it was a very important centre for pilgrims ; the white church still forms the focal point of the village . |
| 21 | In the Middle Ages it was generally accepted that women 's ears turned men on to the same extent as the more obvious feminine attributes ; that is why so may medieval headdresses ensured that women 's ears were discreetly covered . |
| 22 | As for [ h ] -dropping — I have suggested elsewhere ( J. Milroy , 1983 ) that in the Middle Ages it may have been a marker of more cultured speech . |
| 23 | In the Middle Ages it had had the richest monastery in Britain . |
| 24 | In any event the consequences of change as it will affect many rural communities is not fully understood and if a viable social structure is to be retained in the remote areas it will be necessary to proceed with caution . |
| 25 | In the succeeding months it became plain that the determination of American leaders to play the key role in shaping the new world order was to clash with the equally determined insistence of the Russians that their interests were of paramount importance over a large part of the globe . |
| 26 | Where we believe the orthodox account to be seriously misleading is in the causal relationships it postulates between the different factors , and especially its explanation of prison riots . |
| 27 | Although it showed an overall swing of seven per cent to Labour since the last election , in the key regions it was much bigger . |
| 28 | When employed in the financial reports it provides external users with some measure of performance . |
| 29 | Because of the common age of onset being in the late teens it can easily be equated with the usual somewhat awkward behaviour and natural rebellion of teenagers , and initially be set aside by both relatives and professionals , resulting in great family trauma , and at times violence or suicide . |
| 30 | It lies in the sporting feelings it draws aht o' people . |